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Blue Bottle Coffee
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 2, 2025
- address163 Newbury St, Boston 02116
Is Blue Bottle Coffee clean?
Blue Bottle Coffee is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Blue Bottle Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Handling Prohibition-Animals (Pf) • Pet dog observed in establishment. Provided service animal information. Consult customers to leave animals outside. Recommend removing jar of dog biscuits at front door.Handling Prohibition-Animals (Pf) • Pet dog observed in establishment. Provided service animal information. Consult customers to leave animals outside. Recommend removing jar of dog biscuits at front door.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Drain pipe from ice bin could be better aligned with floor drain to prevent water from gathering on floor. Correct as needed.System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Drain pipe from ice bin could be better aligned with floor drain to prevent water from gathering on floor. Correct as needed.
When was Blue Bottle Coffee last inspected?
Blue Bottle Coffee has 23 inspections on record going back to December 5, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 24, 2026 | — | |
| October 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 11, 2025 | — | |
| March 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 24, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 9, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2024 | — | |
| October 2, 2023 | — | |
| February 3, 2023 | Pass |
Blue Bottle Coffee vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.